Emperor to Emperor - Italy before the Renaissance, [Mediaeval Italy was the crucible of modern western civilization when the three great nations of the world, the Greeks, the Saracens and the Franks, encountered one another on the theatre of Italy, the consequence of which, enriched by the heritage of ancient Rome, was the Italian Renaissance],

Burman, Edward,

ISBN 10: 0094694907 / ISBN 13: 9780094694903

Published by Constable, London, 1991., 1991

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first edition, 8vo, 288pp, well illustrated throughout by 57 photographs (mainly by the author), and 13 figures in text drawn by John Mitchell, Index of people and places, publisher's boards, title silver on spine, dw colour-illustrated on the front by the interior of San Pellegrino at Bominaco (with the poor-man's version of the paintings in the Sistine chapel), and on the back by a detail of a thirteenth-century fresco of the Last Supper, near fine.

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• Title: Emperor to Emperor - Italy before the Renaissance, [Mediaeval Italy was the crucible of modern western civilization when the three great nations of the world, the Greeks, the Saracens and the Franks, encountered one another on the theatre of Italy, the consequence of which, enriched by the heritage of ancient Rome, was the Italian Renaissance],
• Publisher: Constable, London, 1991.
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0094694907
• ISBN 13: 9780094694903
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: see description
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Classical Greek and Roman Literature, Classical...

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Emperor to Italy Before the Renaissance [Oct 28, 1991] Burman, Edward